I don’t hate the EU for this. How did you extrapolate that? Also, when something has unintended consequences, the responsible party should own up to it—not throw their hands in the air and call everyone else stupid. What a ridiculous mentality to have.
>when something has unintended consequences, the responsible party should own up to it
That's exactly what happened. You really should read up about things you seem to have strong feelings about.
The EU declared the "EU Cookie Rule" (the ePrivacy Directive) a failure, due to malicious compliance, and was one of the reasons the GDPR became a thing. Ad companies really shot themselves in the foot there.[0][1]
> Something needs to be done about these cookie dialogs the EU imposes on the rest of the world. What a stupid rule.
This puts the blame on the EU, not on the Ad companies doing this, which is where I 'extrapolated' from; there's not another intepretation of this phrase that I'm aware of.
